Rivers: 'I almost rented Khadafy my flat'

Joan Rivers has revealed that she almost rented Moammar Khadafy her flat in New York City.

The 76-year-old comedienne admitted that she toyed with the idea of accepting a bid from the Libyan leader on her $25m (£15.3m) apartment, but joked that she was fearful that he might have "roasted cows in my living room".

The politician apparently saw pictures of the property online after a party Rivers threw for her new TV Land series How'd You Get So Rich?.

She told the New York Post: "The Libyan ambassador called my [broker] and offered over $200,000 (£122,812) a week so he could use it for entertaining... I thought it was great. I said I would give half the rent to Lockerbie."

Rivers also quipped that she would have donated the other half of the proceeds to her houseman, because "he doesn't know how to cook llama".